![]() The male bees do no work and are called drone bees. The other females are worker bees who, unlike the queen bee, produce no eggs. In a colony of honeybees there is one special female called the queen. The rabbit problem is obviously very contrived, but the Fibonacci sequence does occur in real populations. Following this through you'll find that after 12 months (or 1 year), there will be 233 pairs of rabbits. Which is simply the rule for generating the Fibonacci numbers: add the last two to get the next. But new pairs are only born to pairs at least 1 month old, so there will be new pairs. The number of pairs in month will be (in this problem, rabbits never die) plus the number of new pairs born. Now imagine that there are pairs of rabbits after months. Yet another new pair, the female born two months ago produced her
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